The City of Austin Transportation Department is seeking to fill a Supervising or Consulting Engineer to be the Division Manager for the Right-of-Way (ROW) Management Division. This position oversees a team of three supervisors, 24 employees, and 8 temporary employees and manages an annual budget of $3 million. The Division Manager is responsible for the permitting of ROW use, utility coordination, review and approval of construction traffic control plans, inspecting construction traffic control and enforcing ROW Code requirements. The position also oversees the continued implementation and improvement of enterprise software projects to streamline permitting and other review processes. This division works closely with developers, engineers, and internal and external construction teams to maintain safety and minimize the impact on the traveling public.

The ideal Division Manager brings a program management background and prior experience working for a highly progressive transportation organization. This candidate is a professional engineer that guides staff in reviewing construction traffic control plans; has a general understanding of ROW permitting or similar processes; experience with construction practices within the ROW; and the ability to work collaboratively with internal and external teams working in the ROW.

The Director of Transportation seeks a professional engineer with supervisory experience that meets the following qualifications:

An innovative leader with demonstrated ability to provide strategic leadership, to “see the big picture”, presents a collaborative personality with exceptional negotiation skills and strong presentation skills with the ability to convey complex information to elected officials, boards and commissions and stakeholders.

This experienced leader will bring expertise in leading organizational change, developing and mentoring staff, fostering creative problem-solving and accountability and in evaluating departmental structure, staffing, and operations, with a desire to maintain and enhance a highly-responsive, creative, high-morale workforce.

Bring experience in budget development, monitoring, forecasting, and reporting, developing and managing performance metrics.Position requires graduation from an accredited four year college/university with major coursework in engineering plus 8 years of experience acquired before or after licensing as a professional Engineer. Requires a License: Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Texas

To inquire about this position, contact edna.santos@austintexas.gov or jim.dale@austintexas.gov. Please review additional engineering postings with Austin Transportation. ATD also has a ROW Engineer Opening.

The City of Austin has excellent benefits and provides an exceptional retirement system as well as a 457 plan for its employees.

About Austin, Texas

Austin has long been known as a technologically advanced city, a place where new ideas go to be tested and adopted. Austin has enjoyed a robust and diverse economy for the past 10 years, with economic indicators regularly exceeding national averages. Austin metropolitan area is one of the fastest growing in the country, with a 2.9 percent increase in population in 2016. Austin, Texas has a population of 926,000, making it the 11th largest city in the country. One of the country’s most popular, high-profile “green” and culturally dynamic cities, Austin was selected as the #1 Best Places to Live (US News and World Report 4/2017), # 5 Top 25 Future-Ready US Cities (Convention Management Association Convene Magazine, 2/2016), “Best City for the Next Decade” (Kiplinger), the “Best Places to Live in the US” (US News), the “Top Creative Center” in the US (Entrepreneur.com) and #1 on the “On Numbers Economic Index” as the fastest growing economy.

EOE - City of Austin is committed to compliance with the American Disabilities Act

The Austin Transportation Department (ATD), a department of the City of Austin, is responsible for a variety of transportation, mobility, and safety functions throughout the community. ATD works with all modes of transportation and many Austin-area partners and agencies to deploy an all-ages and abilities network. The Austin Transportation Department is committed to providing the safest and most e...fficient, cost-effective and sustainable roadway, bikeway, walkway and transit system for our community.
ATD is responsible for the following aspects of transportation, mobility and safety in Austin: Roadway signage and markings, traffic engineering, traffic and pedestrian signals, ground transportation service regulation, on-street parking, parking meters, City-owned parking lots and garages, transportation systems planning, the active transportation network, permitting and coordination of special events in the City’s right of way, permitting and coordination of construction or maintenance in the City’s right of way, traffic calming, the City’s Complete Streets Policy, and more.
ATD works with several partners in the Central Texas region to design, plan for and construct mobility and safety improvements on our region's transportation systems.
In 2017, US News selected Austin, Texas as the #1 place to live in the United States. For careers as professional transportation engineers, visit www.austincityjobs.org

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